Arturo Uslar Pietri
Encyclopedia
Arturo Uslar Pietri was a Venezuelan intellectual, lawyer
, journalist
, writer
, television producer
and politician
.
in a house on the Romualda to Manduca street, number 102, on May 16, 1906. He was the eldest son of the marriage between the general Arturo Uslar Santamaría and Helena Pietri Paúl.
Among his ancestors are included Johan Von Uslar, a German
who fought in the Battle of Waterloo
in 1815 and then in the Venezuela's independence
. Uslar Pietri was raised in that house and Maracay
(Aragua
), where he published some stories in teen magazines.
His childhood and teenage years were framed by the Venezuelan province: Los Teques
, Maracay
, Cagua
. Since 1915, he met a fellow who exert significant influence on him and who would share the intellectual growth: Carlos Eduardo Frias. He studied political science at the Central University of Venezuela
of the Venezuelan capital city.
There is a particular effect may explain to some extent the attitude of Arturo Uslar Pietri in his youthful days, with respect to political developments led by the university against Juan Vicente Gómez
. His maternal grandfather, the doctor and general Juan Pietri, was a personal friend of the dictator. He was among those who encouraged him to act against Cipriano Castro in 1908. When Gomez took office, the general Pietri was a member of the Governing Council, first as finance minister and then as Vice-President, carrying out the responsibility of which died in 1911. Uslar was then a boy of 5 years, those ties of family and his father's military status had to weigh on the young man who in 1923 was studying political science at the Central University. His conduct in the student action was, therefore, very discreet, in particular on the protests of 1928, when he was barely a year to get his law degree. Instead, early on it was defined his literary vocation. As a high school student at the Colegio San Jose de Los Teques he began writing his first pages. As early as 1922 he had published a text, "La Lucha" (The Struggle) in Billiken. His collaborations were frequent also in El Universal and El Nuevo Diario.
Early reader modernist and symbolist writers as Eugenio de Castro, Gomez Carrillo, Rémy de Gourmont, Darío, Lugones, Herrera y Reissig, Horacio Quiroga, Valle Inclán, his initial writing was marked by these developments.
On 1925 his perspectives changed: intellectual contacts with other university students, new sources of reading, the Russian realistics: Andreyev, Gogol, especially the common book of those students: Saschko Jigouleff. Furthermore, the Revista de Occidente, published in Madrid by Ortega y Gasset, and a sort of briefing for the learning of the new aesthetic, avant-garde European literatures, Guillermo de Torre (3).
From 1925 on, there was an increasing texts production and publishing. His writing was abundant on poems only to picked them up in a book at the height of his literary career: Manoa, (1972). The first stories began to spread about the same time (4). The life of that 20 year-old writer was already defined. Before the outbreak of the small intellectual skirmish against valve, Uslar had published a dramatic text, later reprinted in the magazine: "E ultreja"(5). In 1927, a year before writing the editorial manifesto valve, he had published a theoretical essay on avant-gardism (6). The intellectual bore familiarity with principles of the Spengler's philosophy. Premiered energetic prose and the power of dialectical argumentation that has not abandoned the essayist. Gongora quoted with Goya, Whitman, Mallarmé, Wilde, Lautreamont, Rimbaud, Marinetti, Cocteau, Picasso, Tzara, Huidobro. He wasn't oblivious to the problems of plastic, so palpable in all of his work. The most surprising thing is that this essay is written to refute youth views reticent on the vanguard, exposed by none other than Cesar Vallejo.
In the 1927 essay, exists and displays a precise knowledge of American literary events by Uslar Pietri. He considered Dario y Herrera and Reissig precursors of new forms, a statement that recent criticism has been corroborated. He also knew the importance that the work of José Juan Tablada had for the germinal moment of our vanguard, "whose entertainment does not pale in comparison to the Caligrammes Apollinaire." In other paragraphs recounts his familiarity with the evolution of Spanish American avant-garde, of which states: Mexican stridentism, Indian vendrinism, Silva Valdés Uruguayan nativism, Huidobro's creationism and the controversy of it with Reverdy. Such evidence in aa essay prior to the appearance of raised valve rectification. Uslar Pietri himself, has repeatedly argued that those years of his literary initiation was very little and fragmentary information managed by him and his colleagues (7). If so, not fragmentary information can be inferred that the aesthetic had not clearly connected with the Venezuelan movement was happening in other parts of the continent. The best evidence is provided by Uslar. In the polemical texts outlined above regarding valve, excluding the three who posted thoughtful notes Gabriel Espinosa, is not any other page as pithy and management concepts richest testing Uslar Pietri, produced, insist before the publication of the magazine.
With the above we believe will dissipate suspicions of bias due to personal preferences when it says Arturo Uslar Pietri was the key figure, for awareness and action, as a literary thrill represented the vanguard 1928 in Venezuela. And again, its intellectual role was in any case to match those in another field, the political field, displayed a united front capable of shaking a sleepy country with depressions of all sorts.
Between January and September 1928 Arturo Uslar Pietri fills a first indisputable intellectual level, both for his work on the scandal and controversy of valve and the appearance of his first book of short stories.
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Lawyer
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, journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
, television producer
Television producer
The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...
and politician
Politician
A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
.
Life
Arturo Uslar Pietri was born in CaracasCaracas
Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...
in a house on the Romualda to Manduca street, number 102, on May 16, 1906. He was the eldest son of the marriage between the general Arturo Uslar Santamaría and Helena Pietri Paúl.
Among his ancestors are included Johan Von Uslar, a German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
who fought in the Battle of Waterloo
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands...
in 1815 and then in the Venezuela's independence
Venezuelan War of Independence
-The First Republic:Criollos resented the mercantilist policies of Spain. Trade was only allowed in Pacific ports which was a terrible burden for Argentina, Paraguay and the Caribbean colonies. This is significant as Cuba and Puerto Rico were forced to allow free trade in 1763 by Britain and...
. Uslar Pietri was raised in that house and Maracay
Maracay
Maracay is a city in north-central Venezuela, near the Caribbean coast, and is the capital and most important city of the state of Aragua. Most of it falls under the jurisdiction of the Girardot Municipality. The population as per the 2001 census was 750,000...
(Aragua
Aragua
* Aragua State, Venezuela* Aragua de Maturín* Aragua River* Aragua Municipality, Anzoátegui State, Venezuela* Aragua de Barcelona, Anzoátegui State, Venezuela* Aragua Fútbol Club* Aragua Glass Frog...
), where he published some stories in teen magazines.
His childhood and teenage years were framed by the Venezuelan province: Los Teques
Los Teques
Los Teques is the capital city of the Venezuelan state of Miranda. Its population is 140,617 .-History:The city was founded in 1777 and was named after the Aractoeques Carabs, an indigenous tribe that once inhabited the area...
, Maracay
Maracay
Maracay is a city in north-central Venezuela, near the Caribbean coast, and is the capital and most important city of the state of Aragua. Most of it falls under the jurisdiction of the Girardot Municipality. The population as per the 2001 census was 750,000...
, Cagua
Cagua
Cagua is a city of Venezuela, capital of the Sucre municipality. Cagua is part of the metropolitan area of Maracay.-History:Cagua was established in 1620 as "Cagua La Vieja", a town of original Spaniards. Cagua was rebuilt in its current location in 1622 with the new name of "Nuestra Señora del...
. Since 1915, he met a fellow who exert significant influence on him and who would share the intellectual growth: Carlos Eduardo Frias. He studied political science at the Central University of Venezuela
Central University of Venezuela
The Central University of Venezuela is a premier public University of Venezuela located in Caracas...
of the Venezuelan capital city.
There is a particular effect may explain to some extent the attitude of Arturo Uslar Pietri in his youthful days, with respect to political developments led by the university against Juan Vicente Gómez
Juan Vicente Gómez
Juan Vicente Gómez Chacón was a military general and de facto ruler of Venezuela from 1908 until his death in 1935. He was president on three occasions during this time, and ruled as an unelected military strongman for the rest of the era.-Early years:Gómez was a barely literate cattle herder and...
. His maternal grandfather, the doctor and general Juan Pietri, was a personal friend of the dictator. He was among those who encouraged him to act against Cipriano Castro in 1908. When Gomez took office, the general Pietri was a member of the Governing Council, first as finance minister and then as Vice-President, carrying out the responsibility of which died in 1911. Uslar was then a boy of 5 years, those ties of family and his father's military status had to weigh on the young man who in 1923 was studying political science at the Central University. His conduct in the student action was, therefore, very discreet, in particular on the protests of 1928, when he was barely a year to get his law degree. Instead, early on it was defined his literary vocation. As a high school student at the Colegio San Jose de Los Teques he began writing his first pages. As early as 1922 he had published a text, "La Lucha" (The Struggle) in Billiken. His collaborations were frequent also in El Universal and El Nuevo Diario.
Early reader modernist and symbolist writers as Eugenio de Castro, Gomez Carrillo, Rémy de Gourmont, Darío, Lugones, Herrera y Reissig, Horacio Quiroga, Valle Inclán, his initial writing was marked by these developments.
On 1925 his perspectives changed: intellectual contacts with other university students, new sources of reading, the Russian realistics: Andreyev, Gogol, especially the common book of those students: Saschko Jigouleff. Furthermore, the Revista de Occidente, published in Madrid by Ortega y Gasset, and a sort of briefing for the learning of the new aesthetic, avant-garde European literatures, Guillermo de Torre (3).
From 1925 on, there was an increasing texts production and publishing. His writing was abundant on poems only to picked them up in a book at the height of his literary career: Manoa, (1972). The first stories began to spread about the same time (4). The life of that 20 year-old writer was already defined. Before the outbreak of the small intellectual skirmish against valve, Uslar had published a dramatic text, later reprinted in the magazine: "E ultreja"(5). In 1927, a year before writing the editorial manifesto valve, he had published a theoretical essay on avant-gardism (6). The intellectual bore familiarity with principles of the Spengler's philosophy. Premiered energetic prose and the power of dialectical argumentation that has not abandoned the essayist. Gongora quoted with Goya, Whitman, Mallarmé, Wilde, Lautreamont, Rimbaud, Marinetti, Cocteau, Picasso, Tzara, Huidobro. He wasn't oblivious to the problems of plastic, so palpable in all of his work. The most surprising thing is that this essay is written to refute youth views reticent on the vanguard, exposed by none other than Cesar Vallejo.
In the 1927 essay, exists and displays a precise knowledge of American literary events by Uslar Pietri. He considered Dario y Herrera and Reissig precursors of new forms, a statement that recent criticism has been corroborated. He also knew the importance that the work of José Juan Tablada had for the germinal moment of our vanguard, "whose entertainment does not pale in comparison to the Caligrammes Apollinaire." In other paragraphs recounts his familiarity with the evolution of Spanish American avant-garde, of which states: Mexican stridentism, Indian vendrinism, Silva Valdés Uruguayan nativism, Huidobro's creationism and the controversy of it with Reverdy. Such evidence in aa essay prior to the appearance of raised valve rectification. Uslar Pietri himself, has repeatedly argued that those years of his literary initiation was very little and fragmentary information managed by him and his colleagues (7). If so, not fragmentary information can be inferred that the aesthetic had not clearly connected with the Venezuelan movement was happening in other parts of the continent. The best evidence is provided by Uslar. In the polemical texts outlined above regarding valve, excluding the three who posted thoughtful notes Gabriel Espinosa, is not any other page as pithy and management concepts richest testing Uslar Pietri, produced, insist before the publication of the magazine.
With the above we believe will dissipate suspicions of bias due to personal preferences when it says Arturo Uslar Pietri was the key figure, for awareness and action, as a literary thrill represented the vanguard 1928 in Venezuela. And again, its intellectual role was in any case to match those in another field, the political field, displayed a united front capable of shaking a sleepy country with depressions of all sorts.
Between January and September 1928 Arturo Uslar Pietri fills a first indisputable intellectual level, both for his work on the scandal and controversy of valve and the appearance of his first book of short stories.
Awards
- El NacionalEl NacionalEl Nacional is a Venezuelan publishing company under the name C.A. Editorial El Nacional, most widely known for its El Nacional newspaper. It, along with Últimas Noticias and El Universal, are the most widely read and circulated daily national newspapers in the country, and it has an average of...
Best Short Story Award (1949) - National Prize for LiteratureNational Prize for Literature (Venezuela)The National Prize for Literature is a literary award made annually to Venezuelan writers.* 1948 Mario Briceño Iragorry...
(1954 and 1982) - National Journalism Award (1971)
- The Miguel de CervantesCervantes-People:*Alfonso J. Cervantes , mayor of St. Louis, Missouri*Francisco Cervantes de Salazar, 16th-century man of letters*Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban composer*Jorge Cervantes, a world-renowned expert on indoor, outdoor, and greenhouse cannabis cultivation...
Hispanic-American Journalism Award (1972) - Prince of Asturias AwardPrince of Asturias AwardsThe Prince of Asturias Awards are a series of annual prizes awarded in Spain by the Prince of Asturias Foundation to individuals, entities or organizations from around the world who make notable achievements in the sciences, humanities, and public affairs....
(1990) - Légion d'honneurLégion d'honneurThe Legion of Honour, or in full the National Order of the Legion of Honour is a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the Consulat which succeeded to the First Republic, on 19 May 1802...
Grand-Croix (Grand Cross) (1990) - Rómulo Gallegos PrizeRómulo Gallegos PrizeThe Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize was created on 6 August 1964 by a presidential decree enacted by Venezuelan President Raúl Leoni, in honor of the Venezuelan politician and President Rómulo Gallegos, the author of Doña Bárbara....
for Best Novel (1991)
Novels
- (1931) Las Lanzas coloradas.
- (1947) El camino de El Dorado.
- (1962) Un retrato en la geografía.
- (1964) Estación de máscaras.
- (1976) Oficio de difuntos.
- (1981) La isla de Robinsón
- (1990) La visita en el tiempo.
Essays
- (1945) Las visiones del camino.
- (1945) Sumario de economía venezolana para alivio de estudiantes.
- (1948) Letras y hombres de Venezuela.
- (1949) De una a otra Venezuela.
- (1949) Treinta hombre y sus sombras.
- (1951) Las nubes.
- (1952) Apuntes para retratos.
- (1953) Tierra venezolana.
- (1954) Tiempo de contar.
- (1955) Pizarrón.
- (1955-56-58) Valores humanos.
- (1955) Breve historia de la novela hispanoamericana.
- (1958) Letras y hombres de Venezuela.
- (1959) Materiales para la construcción de Venezuela.
- (1962) Del hacer y deshacer de Venezuela.
- (1964) Valores humanos. Biografías y evocaciones.
- (1964) La palabra compartida. Discursos en el Parlamento (1959–1963).
- (1965) Hacia el humanismo democrático.
- (1966) Petróleo de vida o muerte.
- (1967) Oraciones para despertar.
- (1968) Las vacas gordas y las vacas flacas.
- (1969) En busca del nuevo mundo.
- (1971) Vista desde un punto.
- (1972) Bolivariana.
- (1974) La otra América.
- (1975) Camino de cuento.
- (1975) Viva voz.
- (1979) Fantasmas de dos mundos.
- (1981) Cuéntame a Venezuela.
- (1981) Educar para Venezuela.
- (1982) Fachas, fechas y fichas.
- (1983) Bolívar hoy.
- (1984) Venezuela en el petróleo.
- (1986) Medio milenio de Venezuela.
- (1986) Raíces venezolanas.
- (1986) Bello el venezolano.
- (1986) Godos, insurgentes y visionarios.
- (1990) La creación del Nuevo Mundo.
- (1992) Golpe y Estado en Venezuela.
- (1994) Del cerro de plata al camino extraviado.
Short stories
- (1928) Barrabas y otros relatos.
- (1936) Red.
- (1946) Pasos y pasajeros.
- (1949) Treinta hombres y sus sombras
- (1967) La lluvia y otros cuentos.
- (1980) Los Ganadores
Theater
- (1958) El día de Antero Alban. La Tebaida. El Dios invisible. La fuga de Miranda.
- (1960) Chuo Gil y las tejedoras. Drama en un preludio y siete tiempos.
Travel
- (1954) El otoño en Europa.
- (1960) La ciudad de nadie. El otoño en Europa. Un turista en el cercano oriente.
- (1971) La vuelta al mundo en diez trancos.
- (1975) El globo de colores.